Doctors could use wrist size to verify which children will have a higher risk of heart disease when they become adult. The researchers revealed that the bigger wrist size, which is marker of child’s higher resistance to insulin, a significant aspect that can shove up the odds of heart problems in later life.
In a study carried by Italian researchers from Sapienza University of Rome, over nearly five hundred obese and overweight children, they recorded the wrist size of children by using MRI scan or with a tape measure. They found a bigger bony area as shown in scan is answerable for twenty percent increase in insulin resistance in children.
The simple measurement of the width of the wrist with a tape measure, counting any excess fat, was approximately as dependable an indicator. The researchers claim that it will be better prophet for future problems that how much extra body fat children are carrying. The study was published in Journal of the American Heart Association.
The excessive fat in teenagers is already associated with several heart disease risk aspects in later life, counting insulin resistance, which makes people more prone to develop diabetes. According Dr Marco Capizzi from Sapienza University of Rome, the next step was to check for a relation between wrist size and insulin resistance in children of healthy weight.
The method could ultimately be developed as an easy way for doctors to identify young people at greatest risk. But bodies of children change swiftly during adolescence, which means more accurate methods need to be devised. They hope to do further study to determine how significant this could be and they will need to look at children of healthy weight, added Dr Capizzi.